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It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to Kevin Rose's idea for a writing/blogging platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6UW0JY5PUs
I know, so was my reply. Watching a writer's face while they write is probably about as captivating as watching paint dry in a dark room.
Real time?
The interesting part about watching this isn't watching it being written. It's watching it being edited. What to leave on the cutting room floor is always the hardest part, and Stypi's "Doomed" feature does a great job of showing you how someone comes to the decision to self-edit.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a tongue-in-cheek reference to Kevin Rose's idea for a writing/blogging platform. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6UW0JY5PUs
I know, so was my reply. Watching a writer's face while they write is probably about as captivating as watching paint dry in a dark room.
It made me chuckle regardless.
Cool. However, I feel that watching it, doesn't really give the full effect, requires tons of patience too. Couldn't the editing data be visualized in some data science illustration for a real insight into what it represents?
I would imagine Facebook or another hosted blogging platform could get this data with relative ease.
Real time?
Real time, as in a 1:1 ratio between the time it took him to write it and the time it takes for you to see it played back. Not as in live, where you see it as he's typing it.
But still super interesting
It's especially interesting to note that there are few, if any, words in the entire essay that he didn't edit multiple times. A lot of times when you read something as well-written as PGs essays you get the feeling that the person writing them just sits down and hammers out brilliance. But in reality, at least in the case of PG - and I would venture a guess that most great authors are similar - greatness comes through sweat and repetition more than raw talent, until eventually that thing becomes second nature - or does it ever? I would kill to watch some of the great authors of all-time (a la Shakespeare, Hugo, Dickens etc.) write in real-time - it would be fascinating to know what their process was like.
Cool. However, I feel that watching it, doesn't really give the full effect, requires tons of patience too. Couldn't the editing data be visualized in some data science illustration for a real insight into what it represents?
Maybe like the final draft, overlayed with a heatmap of how much editing was done, then on clicking, provide a tree like comment history of each branching edit. This could show the anatomy of how different people form thoughts in written word. T his is an insight we could learn much from at a massive scale. I would imagine Facebook or another hosted blogging platform could get this data with relative ease.